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From the award-winning New York Times bestselling author, Alexandra Fuller, comes a career defining memoir about grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child
“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexandra Fuller’s open, vivid new memoir, Fi. It’s midsummer in Wyoming and Alexandra is barely hanging on. Grieving her father and pining for her home country of Zimbabwe, reeling from a midlife breakup, freshly sober and piecing her way uncertainly through a volatile new relationship with a younger woman, Alexandra vows to get herself back on even keel.
And then—suddenly and incomprehensibly—her son Fi, at twenty-one years old, dies in his sleep.
No stranger to loss—young siblings, a parent, a home country—Alexandra is nonetheless leveled. At the same time, she is painfully aware that she cannot succumb and abandon her two surviving daughters as her mother before her had done. From a sheep wagon deep in the mountains of Wyoming to a grief sanctuary in New Mexico to a silent meditation retreat in Alberta, Canada, Alexandra journeys up and down the spine of the Rocky Mountains in an attempt to find how to grieve herself whole. There is no answer, and there are countless answers—in poetry, in rituals and routines, in nature and in the indigenous wisdom she absorbed as a child in Zimbabwe. By turns disarming, devastating and—unexpectedly, blessedly funny, Alexandra recounts the wild medicine of painstakingly grieving a child in a culture that has no instructions for it.
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When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a "tough bugger". Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him; he told Bo: "Curiosity scribbled the cat." Nonetheless, Fuller began her strange friendship with the man she calls K, a white African and veteran of the Rhodesian war.
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Astonishing
- De G. Robinson en 06-27-04
De: Alexandra Fuller
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Headshot
- A Novel
- De: Rita Bullwinkel
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 5 h y 24 m
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An unexpected tragedy at a community pool. A family’s unrelenting expectation of victory. The desire to gain or lose control; to make time speed up or stop; to be frighteningly, undeniably good at something. Each of the eight teenage girl boxers in this blistering debut novel has her own reasons for the sacrifices she has made to come to Reno, Nevada, to compete to be named the best in the country.
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Wonderful Narrator
- De love it en 08-09-24
De: Rita Bullwinkel
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I Am on the Hit List
- A Journalist's Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India
- De: Rollo Romig
- Narrado por: Rollo Romig
- Duración: 13 h y 50 m
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When Gauri Lankesh, an outspoken journalist in the South Indian city of Bangalore, was assassinated in September 2017 outside her home, it wasn’t just a loss to her close-knit community of writers and activists—the shock reverberated nationwide, making headlines and sparking mass protests. Why was she targeted, and who was behind it? Following the case to its stunning, unsettling conclusion, Rollo Romig uncovers a world of political extremists, fearless writers, organized crime, and shadowy religious groups.
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Fantastic book
- De esther en 05-18-25
De: Rollo Romig
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House of Kwa
- De: Mimi Kwa
- Narrado por: Mimi Kwa
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
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Mimi Kwa ignored the letter for days. When she finally opened it, the news was so shocking her hair turned grey. Why would a father sue his own daughter? The collision was over the estate of Mimi's beloved Aunt Theresa, but its seed had been sown long ago. In an attempt to understand how it had come to this, Mimi unspools her rich family history in House of Kwa.
De: Mimi Kwa
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The Harder I Fight the More I Love You
- A Memoir
- De: Neko Case
- Narrado por: Neko Case
- Duración: 7 h y 1 m
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Neko Case has long been revered as one of music’s most influential artists, whose authenticity, lyrical storytelling, and sly wit have endeared her to a legion of critics, musicians, and lifelong fans. In The Harder I Fight the More I Love You, Case brings her trademark candor and precision to a memoir that traces her evolution from an invisible girl “raised by two dogs and a space heater” in rural Washington state to her improbable emergence as an internationally acclaimed talent.
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Made me tear at times
- De Kelly Baer en 05-01-25
De: Neko Case
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Native Nations
- A Millennium in North America
- De: Kathleen DuVal
- Narrado por: Carolina Hoyos
- Duración: 21 h y 30 m
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A magisterial history of Indigenous North America that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling their story from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today. Long before the colonization of North America, Indigenous Americans built diverse civilizations and adapted to a changing world in ways that reverberated globally. And, as award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal vividly recounts, when Europeans did arrive, no civilization came to a halt because of a few wandering explorers, even when the strangers came well armed.
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An outstanding survey with many surprises
- De L Dickson en 06-05-24
De: Kathleen DuVal
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All the Parts We Exile
- De: Roza Nozari
- Narrado por: Roza Nozari
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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As the youngest of three daughters, and the only one born in Canada soon after her parents' emigration from Iran, Roza Nozari began her life hungry for a sense of belonging. From her early years, she shared a passion for Iranian cuisine with her mother and craved stories of their ancestral home. Eventually they visited and she fell in love with its sights and smells, and with the warm embrace of their extended family. Yet Roza sensed something was amiss with her mother's happy, well-rehearsed story of their original departure.
De: Roza Nozari
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The World She Edited
- Katharine S. White at The New Yorker
- De: Amy Reading
- Narrado por: Christa Lewis
- Duración: 20 h y 59 m
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In the summer of 1925, Katharine Sergeant Angell White walked into The New Yorker’s midtown office and left with a job as an editor. The magazine was only a few months old. Over the next thirty-six years, White would transform the publication into a literary powerhouse. This exquisite biography brings to life the remarkable relationships White fostered with her writers and how these relationships nurtured an astonishing array of literary talent.
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A deep dive into a literary life
- De AMC en 10-27-24
De: Amy Reading
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Men Have Called Her Crazy
- A Memoir
- De: Anna Marie Tendler
- Narrado por: Anna Marie Tendler
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
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In early 2021, popular artist Anna Marie Tendler checked herself into a psychiatric hospital following a year of crippling anxiety, depression and self-harm. Over two weeks, she underwent myriad psychological tests, participated in numerous therapy sessions, connected with fellow patients and experienced profound breakthroughs, such as when a doctor noted, “There is a you inside that feels invisible to those looking at you from the outside.”
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Felt incomplete
- De Anonymous User en 08-21-24
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American Mother
- De: Colum McCann, Diane Foley
- Narrado por: Jamie Lee Curtis, Colum McCann
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
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In late 2021, Diane Foley sat at a table across from her son's killer, Alexanda Kotey, a member of the ISIS group known as "The Beatles" who plead guilty to the kidnapping, torture, and murder of her son seven years before. Kotey was about to go serve life imprisonment and this was Diane’s chance to talk to the man who had been involved with brutally taking her son's last breath. What would she say to his killer? What would he reveal to her? Might she even be able to summon forgiveness for him? So begins American Mother.
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Such a sad story
- De Joan Henderson en 11-20-24
De: Colum McCann, y otros
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause
- The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
- De: Benjamin Nathans
- Narrado por: Rich Miller
- Duración: 23 h y 55 m
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Beginning in the 1960s, the Soviet Union was unexpectedly confronted by a dissident movement that captured the world’s imagination. Demanding that the Kremlin obey its own laws, an improbable band of Soviet citizens held unauthorized public gatherings, petitioned in support of arrested intellectuals, and circulated banned samizdat texts. Against all odds, the dissident movement undermined the Soviet system and unexpectedly hastened its collapse. To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause is a definitive history of a remarkable group of people who helped change the twentieth century.
De: Benjamin Nathans
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Knife
- Meditations After an Attempted Murder
- De: Salman Rushdie
- Narrado por: Salman Rushdie
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in black—black clothes, black mask—rushed down the aisle toward him, wielding a knife. His first thought: So it’s you. Here you are. What followed was a horrific act of violence that shook the literary world and beyond.
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Triumph of Life
- De Donna Ponte en 04-17-24
De: Salman Rushdie
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Combee
- Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War
- De: Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black
- Narrado por: Machelle Williams
- Duración: 25 h y 20 m
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The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman's most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written by a descendant of one of the participants: Edda L. Fields-Black shows how Tubman commanded a ring of spies, scouts, and pilots and participated in military expeditions behind Confederate lines. On June 2, 1863, Tubman and her crew piloted two regiments of Black US Army soldiers, the Second South Carolina Volunteers, and their white commanders up coastal South Carolina's Combahee River in three gunboats.
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Bringing the forgotten to life
- De GAT en 07-16-24
Dissection of grief
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Heartbreaking and beautiful.
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Phenomenal Fi
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Profound and important
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Lyrical, poetic and poignant- I would rewind so as not to miss a single word.
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Honest
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Sweet, deep, perfect
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Lifting the fog
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Raw and beautiful
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The writing
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